Adolescents' experiences of a parent's serious illness and death

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-25

  Dehlin, Lena ^a,b   Reg, Lena Mårtensson ^b,c  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VARBERG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Coping; Grief; Parent parental death; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; HUMANS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67749124162     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951509000042     Document Type: Article

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